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[I’m not sure what “normalizing” you are looking at, but the only one that would seem to make sense would be fatalities per 1M population. So, I took a look over on Worldometers, and there is only sizeable one country that falls in the range you state. (One other is significantly lower yet.) You seem disinclined to state the country’s name, so I’ll only say it is a well known Asian country (but not China). Ditto for the other country noted above.

This is NOT a valid comparison. Both these Asian countries mitigated very early, very strongly, and in ways (esp. with regards to contact tracing, privacy, and surveillance of the population) that are 10x past even a Biden Administration collective wet dream. This strongly affects the spread of the disease, which sees exponents in the equations that describe how a socio-biological phenomenon like COVID-19 behaves.]

I think BMI may be the common denominator between the Far East and Africa. The exception in Africa, South Africa, is pretty fat, which may account for its relatively high fatality rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_body_mass_index